Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) finishes one point ahead overall, 36 to 35. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 38.5 against 32.9. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 39 to 29. DeepSeek V3.1 does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while DeepSeek V3.1 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use.
Pick Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V3.1 only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
38.5
DeepSeek V3.1
32.9
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
15.2
DeepSeek V3.1
14.8
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
33.4
DeepSeek V3.1
39.5
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
42.1
DeepSeek V3.1
40.7
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
30
DeepSeek V3.1
30.5
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
70
DeepSeek V3.1
67
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
61.7
DeepSeek V3.1
60.8
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
47.8
DeepSeek V3.1
44.2
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 36 to 35. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 39 and 29.
DeepSeek V3.1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 30.5 versus 30. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 15.2 versus 14.8. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 47.8 versus 44.2. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 42.1 versus 40.7. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 38.5 versus 32.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek V3.1 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 39.5 versus 33.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 70 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.7 versus 60.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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